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VMware Workstation and Fusion Security Updates

Number: AV16-187
Date: 14 November 2016

Purpose

The purpose of this advisory is to bring attention to multiple security updates released by VMware.

Assessment

VMware has release security updates for the VMware Workstation and Workstation Fusion products. The severities of the vulnerabilities addressed with these updates are critical. The drag and drop function of the below mentioned products may allow a guest to execute code on the host operating system via an out-of-bound memory access vulnerability.

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Note to Readers

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